Here at Android Police, us writers are encouraged not to use the word "finally" in titles, as it can manufacture unnecessary excitement for something that not a lot of people may care about. However, for something as miraculous as this, there really is no better word to use. Google has at long last begun testing speed controls in the YouTube Android app, something that people have been wanting for years. It's about time.

Our friends over at 9to5Google seem to be the first ones to have spotted this, as it looks like this is currently a rather limited server-side test. This new option can be seen by tapping on the three-dot menu on the top right. In between "Captions" and "View in Cardboard" sits "Speed," with a speedometer as its icon. Click that, and you'll get to choose from all the speeds (0.25x to 2x) that you can choose from via YouTube on desktop.

The feature was discovered on a Pixel with YouTube v12.29.57, but I couldn't replicate the results on my own Pixel with the same YouTube version, or any other devices. Although this is clearly a server-side test, many of YouTube's tests do make it to production and I see no reason why Google would choose not to make this public. Let us know if you guys are seeing this.

Comments

Lord Argyris

I feel like Google went about this backward in leaving this so long for mobile. All the main applications I can think of for people using this feature revolve around burning through long, audio-based material more quickly while they're doing something else, which isn't something you'd normally want to do tied to a traditional computer.

Yap Khong Leong

Ever since the website itself had this feature, I installed chrome extension that toggles all youtube videos to 2x speed simply because it's time consuming to watch all videos you have subscribed at once. Even for mobile I had to share the link to an external player to play it in 2x speed to do the same, this, will be lifesaving for me.

blahmoomoo

Not entirely true since that is my use case, but I can certainly see this being the case if you only have one PC/laptop and it only has one screen.

Kunal Narang

Finally. Been waiting for this forever! Google, you're late, but better late than never.

I know, Subscribing for something for a single feature is not fair. And also Youtube RED isn't available in India.

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Thanks! I've tried the new one. This version has one bug. After I offline some videos and close the app. Later when I open the app again without data connection. The app keeps on showing the loading animation. It doesn't even show the offline videos. It shows the videos only after I turn on data connection.

aRvInD

Dark theme should be brought to all apps..! Maybe Dark OS mode should be OS level toggle where all apps must switch to black background on request..

I have used OGYoutube. There's one annoying bug. After I offline some videos and close the app. Later when I open the app again without data connection. The app keeps on showing the loading animation. It doesn't even show the offline videos. It shows the videos only after I turn on data connection.

I know its not a big issue but I use offline videos a lot. That made me to switch back to original youtube app.

Pradyun

Go to internal storageogmodsogyoutube and all you videos will be there

If they bring this feature to mobile, I might actually start using the YouTube app again. Currently using the mobile website along with BS Player which allows me to speed up the videos like on desktop.

JohnnyRockets

Can you provide a little more information on how you are speeding up YouTube on mobile? The mobile website doesn't work for me.